56 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991 · most notably Brown v. Illinois (1975), State v. Childers (1977)
3 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · 45 Ill. 2d 158 - The People v. Nowak
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From our examination of the record, in light of the circumstances shown by the testimony, we conclude that the giving of the Miranda warnings, in the first instance by the police officer and in the second by the assistant State’s Attorney, served to break the causal connection between the illegal arrest and the giving of the statements and that defendant’s act in making the statements was sufficiently an act of free will to purge the primary taint of the unlawful invasion.’ (Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, at 486 .) We hold, therefore, that the circuit court did not err in admitting the statements into evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.